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6 May 2019

1 May 2019

  • 09:3709:37, 1 May 2019 diff hist +6 m Patricia Highsmith In Ripliad section: in sentence 'Plein soleil'' (titled ''Purple Noon'' for English-language audiences, though it translates as "Full Sun"', I replaced 'Full Sun' with 'Broad Daylight' a translation based on everyday French -not a dictionary

17 April 2019

3 March 2019

  • 16:1916:19, 3 March 2019 diff hist 0 m Kickers (brand) Changed 'During the 1980s Kickers shoes become very successful in Britain' to 'During the 1980s Kickers shoes became very successful in Britain' Reason: Wrong tense

16 February 2019

  • 15:4715:47, 16 February 2019 diff hist −71 m Alexandre Despatie Replaced broken link for retirement ref. Reason: broken links look bad. Changed tense in para on 2007 world aquatics championship from present to past - reason: it's no longer 2007.

1 January 2019

5 December 2018

28 November 2018

1 November 2018

7 October 2018

  • 16:4016:40, 7 October 2018 diff hist +984 m TVN24 Updated ownership to Discovery Inc - plus para on European Commision's insistence on avalability thru non-Liberty Media group outlets. Plus refs

30 September 2018

8 September 2018

6 September 2018

  • 17:2217:22, 6 September 2018 diff hist 0 m Trent Reznor Changed 'Neither Reznor or Ross were...' present to 'Neither Reznor nor Ross was...' Reason: grammar (twice). 'Neither' is paired with 'nor' not 'or'. The result is a singular, so verb must be 'was' not 'were'.

24 August 2018

  • 09:0509:05, 24 August 2018 diff hist 0 m Târgu Mureș In 'History', changed 'expulsed' to 'expelled'. Reason: 'expulse' is not a word in English - even in the preterite. 'Expel', however, does exist - and an associated noun is 'expulsion'. But I'm not sure 'expel' is the best verb here. This is a Band-Aid.

27 July 2018

20 July 2018

8 July 2018

7 July 2018

24 June 2018

21 April 2018

17 April 2018

2 August 2017

27 May 2017

29 March 2017

  • 11:1911:19, 29 March 2017 diff hist −16 m Gwyneth Williams changed 'the amount of science programmes' to the number of science programmes' Reason: ' In English, 'amount' can refer only tot the uncountable - eg spaghetti. 'Number' refers to the countable - eg pizzas.

20 March 2017

19 March 2017

14 March 2017

2 February 2017

30 January 2017

20 January 2017

3 January 2017

  • 20:5620:56, 3 January 2017 diff hist +1,763 Vestel Added ref require for licensing deal for Sharp, updated with Foxconn's takeover of Sharp and intention to take back control of the brand. Added Toshiba deal.

4 December 2016

13 November 2016

12 November 2016

11 November 2016

5 November 2016

4 November 2016

  • 17:4117:41, 4 November 2016 diff hist −10 Dubuque, Iowa Rewrote start of para beginning 'Dubuque has long been a center' to avoid the need to define what recently meant, after a bot wanted to know what it signified and replaced 'nationally' with 'in the US' - reason: not all Wikipedia users are in the US.

3 November 2016

  • 13:3913:39, 3 November 2016 diff hist +6 m Digital on-screen graphic Amended 'neither BBC One HD nor BBC Two HD use a DOG' to read 'neither BBC One HD nor BBC Two HD was using a DOG'. Reason: Grammar - Single subject: takes a singular verb. And past tense is better in an encyclopaedia.

2 November 2016

26 October 2016

14 October 2016

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